Luke Dykes

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I'm Luke, founder of Own Time Studios, a small UK web studio in Southend-on-Sea. I build fast, mobile-first websites for small businesses, with online booking, Stripe payments, SEO and AI features, plus iOS apps.

About

I’m Luke, founder of Own Time Studios, a small UK web studio in Southend-on-Sea. I build fast, mobile-first websites for small businesses, with online booking, Stripe payments, SEO and AI features, plus iOS apps. You work directly with me, and you see a working demo before you commit. Recent work: ONE94 bookings, Industrial Barbers, an 8Music Merchant Center fix and my own app, Shout. More at owntimestudios.com/work.

  • Joined October 2026

Languages

  • EnglishFluent

Industry experience

  • Retail
  • Travel & Hospitality
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Software & Internet
  • Professional Services

More experts in Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom

Projects · 3

8Music: getting a 770-product Wix shop through Google Merchant Center

8Music sells guitars, keys, DJ, PA and studio gear online, with 770 products on a Wix store built by someone else. In September 2026 I audited the site: 876 page addresses from the sitemaps, 307 pages fetched, and structured data read on 199 product pages. I then fixed the issues in priority order. Two Merchant Center feeds became one, and GTINs, MPNs and SKUs were brought up to ecommerce standards. Secondhand stock is now marked as used, and every product was checked against the site on price, stock, brand and title. Merchant Center's business information, the About and Contact pages and the footer were corrected too. Python scripts re-checked every fix after each publish. I didn't build the site. My work was the SEO and Merchant Center fix. Live: https://www.twine.net/signin

  • App Developer
  • SEO Expert
  • Web Designer
  • +1
Industrial Barbers: a one-page B2B site for pop-up workplace barbering

Industrial Barbers sets up a full barbershop inside flexible workspaces such as WeWork, GPE and Mindspace. With no shopfront, the website has to do the front-of-house work for two audiences: managers who book events and members who book chairs. I built one long page around the enquiry. It has a locations browser that expands by network and city, pricing shown upfront, a four-step "how it works", a lazy-loaded gallery, and buttons that pre-write a trial or full-day request in the form. Enquiries arrive as structured fields through a serverless endpoint. Failures show a fallback email, and a honeypot catches spam instead of a captcha. Live: https://www.twine.net/signin

  • App Developer
  • SEO Expert
  • Web Designer
  • +1
Shout: a live, location-based social app for Southend

Group chats go quiet and feeds show last week. Shout shows this evening, within walking distance. I designed and built it end to end: an iPhone app on the App Store, a web app for Android and everything else, and the website behind it. Everything sits on a live map: go live for a few hours, post text or voice "shouts" that expire, create events for up to 50 people, or start small hangouts of two to eight. Privacy is built in: you're visible only when you choose, your pin is offset, and every report goes to a human moderator. Operated by Shout Social Media Limited. Live: https://www.twine.net/signin

  • App Developer
  • SEO Expert
  • Web Designer
  • +1

Work experience

Founder & Managing Director · Own Time Studios, Southend-on-SeaDec 2024 – Present · 2 yrs

Design and build websites, online booking and Stripe payments, apps, AI features and SEO for local businesses in Southend, Essex and London. Clients include 8Music, Industrial Barbers, ONE94 and GustoSi.

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